Pastoral Poems "Come live with me and be my love." This is a famous line from Christopher Marlow's poem "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love". Marlow's poem is thought to be one of the greatest pastoral poems ever written, and has resulted in many responses. None of these responses is as famous as Sir Walter Raleigh's "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepard". ... Throughout the poem, the Shepard is actually kind of shallow. ...

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One of the most well-known, deep writers is Edgar Allan Poe, the first famous American poet. ... Poe's poems and tales are famous for using symbolism and imagery to create the mood and atmosphere desired. The well-known writer, Edgar Allan Poe, is famous for his use of imagery in many of his works, but specifically in poems such as The Raven and The Tell-tale Heart. ... Edgar Allan Poe's most famous, well-known poem is called The Raven. ... Edgar Allan Poe, the famous American poet, is known for using symbolism and imagery to ass the suspense and mystery of his poems and tales. ...

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The first verse of this poem Terence friend is speaking to him about how sad all his poems are; all of them are about death. ... Milton is a famous poet and he was the first to say to justify God's way of man. It is a famous line from his story "Paradise Lost". ... This is the theme of the poem. ... Each verse break in this poem is significant to the poem. ...

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Navoi became a very famous poet. ... Navoi's poems in old Uzbek were collected into four parts, which were called "Chor-Devon". His poems in Persian were collected and called "Devo-e-Foni". His most important work is the "Quintuple", five poems written between 1483 and 1485. ... The second poem is "Farhod and Shirin". ...

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William Wordsworth is a famous Romantic English poet known for his imagery. ... This also happens to be one of my favorite poems. This poem's plot is simple. ... It's like he is creating a painting not a poem. ... Also he wasn't alone while writing the poem, his wife, Dorothy, helped tweak the poem for him, and added the last few lines of the poem, which are one of my favorite lines of the poem: "They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils." ...

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After he became known for his many famous sermons, he died in the early 1630's. ... Then in the 20th century he became a very famous poet for his writings. ... His writings were published a short period after his death, and until today he too is very famous for his poetry. ... All poems have seduction for the message, but each poem differs in tone and in language use. ... This poem is just pure emotion. ...

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Early poems praised God and heroes; most were religious in some nature. ... There are tons of poets who don't rhyme but still can make a poem, feel and describe the same. ... (www.Encarta.com) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was a very famous American poet, whose work boldly asserts the worth of the individual and the oneness of all humanity. ... There might be many many poets out there but very few become famous like the one's mentioned or the one's most people know. ... To the considered rules of poems, Poets think of their own rules. ...

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He was a famous composer and skilled bandmaster. ... Sousa wrote many types of music, from songs to orchestral suites, from operettas to waltzes, from marches to symphonic poems. ... Some of his most famous marches were written for the band. ... His most famous piece is "The Stars and Stripes Forever." ... Sousa, being so famous, has earned himself a place in musical history forever....

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The poem "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" by John Keats, is about life and death. ... This is meant to explain that the author believes that at death, it is not how famous one is or who one loves that is important because of all that will be lost. ... There are many personifications found through out the poem like "night's face", as well as metaphors such as "chance-hand" and "world's shore". The verse structure is pretty consistent until the last two lines of the poem. ... The poem reflects the literary period because it speaks of death. ...

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The word "England" or "English" occurs six times in this poem. That's a lot for a poem that is only 14 lines! ... Let's start with the overall form of the poem, shall we? ... And yet this poem isn't exactly, 100% in the English style. ... There are in fact many different types of sonnets, but the two most common are the Petrarchan sonnet (named after the famous Italian sonneteer Francesco Petrarca) and the Shakespearean (or English) sonnet. ...

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Wilfred Owen is a famous poet who wrote during the First World War. ... Although Owen has written poems about other subjects, he is best known for his small collection of war poems. ... At this time he wrote his most important poems. ... Owen wrote the poem in response to another poem by Jessie Pope that he read in the Daily Mail. ... Owen's poem shows a wounded man from the war. ...

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Evangeline is one of the best long poems ever written by any author. ... In the poem Evangeline they are unable to find Gabriel. ... Hiawatha is a long and many - sided poem, in which readers mat be trusted to fin their own tastes and interests, but one can hardly believe that many would fail to respond to the famous passages from "Hiawath"a childhood" in canto 3 (Wagenknecht p. 99). ... Longfellow wrote many great poems. ... All three poems are well known and read to the day. ...

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Lola Ridge published a total of 61 poems. One of her least famous poems was The Insane. ... These three aspects make the poem work efficiently. ... This setting brings meaning to the poem. ... In conclusion, this poem is very dark and distraught. ...

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Seamus Heaney is a famous Ireland writer who has written many award winning poems. Digging, is but one of the many poems from his collection, "Death of a Naturalist". In this poem Heany is exploring his ancestry and the roots from where he was brought up. ... In conclusion I think that the theme that has developed through the process of this poem is the need for self-acceptance. ... Heaney starts his poem the same as it was ended, with the same phrase. ...

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William Shakespeare is known as one of the greatest litterary writers ever. He is quite possibly the most famous writers ever. It is not known exactly when he was born. People speculate his birthday to be in 1564 because he was baptized Wednesday, April 26th, 1564. William was one of seven chi...

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This is displayed well in two of his more famous sonnets,My Mistress? ... The images that these words put into our heads are very true to his idea that his woman means nothing compared to nature, one of the main points of his poem. ... love poems. ...

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Apollo's most famous love affair with a mortal was with Hecuba. ... (NASA) There is Apollo Theater in Harlem which is a very famous music hall in New York. ... For example, The Odyssey is an epic poem that is still read today. ...

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Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem, "The Love Song of J. ... He composed and read the valedictory poem for his graduation in 1905. His first published poem, "A Fable For Feasters", was written as a school exercise and was published in the Smith Academy Record  in February 1905. ... His undergraduate poems were "literary" and conventional. ... Poetry For a poet of his stature, Eliot produced a relatively small number of poems. ...

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The tone of this poem is soft and sentimental. ... This poem is entirely blank verse. ... You can see this in the poem "Aubade." ... You see this in the last stanza of the poem. ... You can see this in the poem "The Decade." ...

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The famous poet William Shakespeare once said "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" and his words couldn't be any truer for the work of 17th century English poet Thomas Carew. Whether you refer to his poem as "A Song" or "Ask Me No More," Carew revolutionizes the love poem and redefines beauty in such a way that the recipient of these words could care less about what the poem is called simply because it would be just as romantic with any other title. Breaking from the Shakespearean sonnet that had become commonplace, Carew's poem exhibits a few...

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Banjo Paterson was famous for his writings and poetry. He was famous and prolific. ... Banjo Patterson is by far one of the most famous Australian writers ever. ... Surprisingly the poem is actually pretty sad. ... To me if it doesn't rhyme it isn't a poem. ...

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However like many famous poets, many of her poems weren't published until after her death. ... " is an example of a comical poem. As this poem may be comical, at the same point it is a serious poem. ... After her death, her poems were published, and Dickinson became a famous poet. ... Papa above is a poem that really stuck out. ...

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Apollo's most famous love affair with a mortal was with Hecuba. ... There is Apollo Theater in Harlem which is a very famous music hall in New York. ... For example, The Odyssey is an epic poem that is still read today. ...

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Shel Silverstein is one of the best childrens poets, and possibly one of the most famous in recent history. ... A good example of this is the poem 'Alison Beals and her twenty-five eels'. The illustration along the side of that poem shows how she uses each of the pet eels mentioned in the poem and puts a clear picture of what Silverstein is talking about into your head. ... Roald Dahs is not as famous for his poetry as he is for novel work which includes such famous books as 'Charley and the Chocolate Factory' and 'Matilda', but his poetry is not something to b...

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From thereafter the son of a preacher began to doubt religion and began to write some of his, now, most famous poems and essays such as Nature, Essays (both first and second), and Poems (Woodlief 1). ... His Nature essay was only the beginning of his many more famous works. ... The more famous of his essays were "Self Reliance," "The American Scholar," and "The Divinity School Address." ... Another of his more famous poems was "The Rhodora." where he writes about a common New England flower just because it lives. ... His poem describes the effect of the death of his young son. ...

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